MUMBAI: There is strong oral, physical and technical evidence that will stand in a court of law against Shariful Fakir, arrested for allegedly breaking into actor Saif Ali Khan‘s residence on Jan 16 and stabbing him, said additional commissioner of police (west region) Paramjit Singh Dahiya on Tuesday.
He addressed the media after questions were raised about the identity of the arrested accused and fingerprints collected from Khan’s flat not matching with that of Fakir’s.
Dahiya said, “We are yet to receive the fingerprint report from the state CID, but we are certain Fakir is involved in the attack on the actor. It was the accused who narrated the entire incident during the crime scene reconstruction.”
He added: “Fingerprints constitute only one aspect of evidence collection. Multiple people accessing the crime scene could complicate print retrieval. We have a lot of technical evidence like CCTV footage and the mobile network location of the stolen SIM that the accused was using when he committed the offence.”
Dahiya further said that the facial recognition test was just a standard operating procedure and was not done because there was confusion over the accused’s identity. “Besides, we have collected blood-stained weapons used by the accused and sent the clothes of the victim [Khan] and the accused for forensic analysis.” He added that Fakir was familiar with the area and was aware that high-profile people live there.
A Bandra police officer said, “The team has worked on the dump data collection of mobile networks through which it is found that the accused was in the locality on the day of crime.”
The officer added, “On Dec 31 night, Fakir conducted a recce of Bandra and Khar. He then worked for three days in a hotel in Bandra (W) which is located a few metres from Satguru Sharan, where Khan resides. He left the job after a dispute with the owner. On Jan 16, Fakir walked from Bandra to Khar and to Satguru Sharan and decided to commit a burglary. This is one part of the technical evidence we have gathered after his mobile network location was found earlier and also on the day of crime near Khan’s building.”
Fakir will be produced before Bandra court on Wednesday for custody extension.
Mumbai: There is strong oral, physical and technical evidence that will stand in a court of law against Shariful Fakir, arrested for allegedly breaking into actor Saif Ali Khan’s residence on Jan 16 and stabbing him, said additional commissioner of police (west region) Paramjit Singh Dahiya on Tuesday.
He addressed the media after questions were raised about the identity of the arrested accused and fingerprints collected from Khan’s flat not matching with that of Fakir’s.
Dahiya said, “We are yet to receive the fingerprint report from the state CID, but we are certain Fakir is involved in the attack on the actor. It was the accused who narrated the entire incident during the crime scene reconstruction.”
He added: “Fingerprints constitute only one aspect of evidence collection. Multiple people accessing the crime scene could complicate print retrieval. We have a lot of technical evidence like CCTV footage and the mobile network location of the stolen SIM that the accused was using when he committed the offence.”
Dahiya further said that the facial recognition test was just a standard operating procedure and was not done because there was confusion over the accused’s identity. “Besides, we have collected blood-stained weapons used by the accused and sent the clothes of the victim [Khan] and the accused for forensic analysis.” He added that Fakir was familiar with the area and was aware that high-profile people live there.
A Bandra police officer said, “The team has worked on the dump data collection of mobile networks through which it is found that the accused was in the locality on the day of crime.”
The officer added, “On Dec 31 night, Fakir conducted a recce of Bandra and Khar. He then worked for three days in a hotel in Bandra (W) which is located a few metres from Satguru Sharan, where Khan resides. He left the job after a dispute with the owner. On Jan 16, Fakir walked from Bandra to Khar and to Satguru Sharan and decided to commit a burglary. This is one part of the technical evidence we have gathered after his mobile network location was found earlier and also on the day of crime near Khan’s building.”
Fakir will be produced before Bandra court on Wednesday for custody extension.